St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06

SOulS. DullulnS lOlS twenty-five
feet front about two years since could
have been purchased for 500 apiece,
and now these same lots are held at
prices ranging from $500 to $4,000
apiece, There has not been any boom
to speak of, but the increase in the
value of land has been of steady growth,
and good judges claim that top figures
have not yet been reached. All along
the series of hills from which this thirty
ing part of the city derives its name can
be seen an army of laborers and teams
grading, leveling and filling up streets
which will soon be filled with business
blocks of substantial brick and stone.
When a move in the direction of Airing
ton was inaugurated four or five years
ago small, cheap frame houses were the
rule, costing from $500 to 500 each, but
now the march of improvement de-
mands something more lasting and
property owners in the vicinity have
been quick to see the advantage that
must accrue to them of building for the
future.
SOME FINE BUILDINGS.
Especially along Payne avenue and
Arcade street is this the case
and at the corner of Reaney
street and Payne avenue j. M.
Froiseth has erected two-story
$4,000. Between Whitall and Wells
streets on the same avenue Ostman
Brothers have just completed $1,000
block, and between Sims and York
streets E. Magnusen has improved his
lot with $500 house. Grading was
fms he'd on Arcade street, from Mime
haha street to Maryland street, and
S64, GOO were appropriated for grading
from Lake Como to Book street, work
upon which has already been begun.
As an evidence of the confidence felt
in the future of Arcade street $1,000
have been invested in new hotel just
completed between Case and Sims
streets, and all along Arcade street
worlmen are digging foundations for
prospective business blocks. The
Bohn Manufacturing company has
taken UP the block of ground embracing
all the land north of the Omaha railroad,
between Arcade and Forrest streets and
south of Wells street, for their new
door, sash and blind factory, which will
give employment to 900 men. A. f.
Stewards broom factory, on Jessamine
street, is another Improvement, and the
new scale works, proposed to be erected
on Maryland street, will add number
of new recruits to the locality. The
new round house of the Omaha road is
also situated in Arlington, and has
stalls for seventeen engines, while
new depot has been constructed on
Fauquier street, between Payne avenue
and Edgerton street. As in other por-
tiens of st. Paul suburban property,
there is demand for better street car
facilities, and the line that now stops at
Collins street is to be extended up
Burr to Minnehaha street to Payne
avenue, with terminus at Sim street.
awaiting the completion of the grading
of certain streets to carry out this plan
of Improvement, and soon the tinkle of
the bell will be heard the other side of
the railroad bridge. The first brick
block was built at Arlington two years
ago by the Froiseth Brothers, who SUBJ
Seauently disposed of it at a handsome
profit to Gustave Willius, of the Ger
man-American bank.
Another improvement that attracts a
great deal of attention is
THE NEW SCHOOL BUILDING,
just finished, on jerks, between Walsh
and Weide streets, which is the same
size as the Lincoln building in South st.
Paul. Graders are now at work on X
street, which is to be thus improved
from Mississippi to Forest streets, and
this will in turn be followed by similar
work on Sims and York streets. AT the
depot on Fauquler street passengers go
ing east from st. Paul are transferred,
so that very busy scene is enacted at
this point during the entire day, and the /
needs of this section of st. Paul are
rapidly being recognized by the city
fathers.
The depot in question is hardly .ade-
quate, and the railroad company pro-
poses to supersede the present structure
with more commodious one of brick, /
which will be atonce ornamental as we'll
as useful. Perched upon an elevation
which overlooks the surrounding hills,
is the substantial looking dwelling of
III. j. Brainard, the first settler at Arl-
ington, and who has been. an eye wit
ness of the yearly growth of the country
about his place. There is not better
location in the vicinity of st. Paul, and
the outlying grounds embrace an entire
square, in the center of which is the
Brainard residence.
Houses for laboring people are rapidly |
springing up all over the hills of Airing
ton, and especially is this the case going
north, where land is not so high. These
are substantial and comfortable looking,
and fill long needed want in this sec
ton, for the population of the new
suburb is in the main composed of hard
WORKING paoOla and their familiac